80 



The wood that I have made into coal I did not cord ; but there 



were twelve hundred bushels of coal. Allowing fifty bushels to the 



cord, as some estimate it, there would be twenty-four cords of wood. 



Eleven hundred and twelve bushels of coal, sold for 157 00 



Paid for burning and marketing, 40 00 



117 00 



The wood when cut fit for a cook stove is worth $4 a 

 cord ; the expense of cutting $2 a cord. 



I have now on hand, as nearly as I can judge, 175 

 cords of wood, worth as it now is, $350 ; but when coaled 

 or cut fit for market, double that amount. Wood, 350 00 



Proceeds, $467 00 



The land at the present time I value at $100 per acre, and my 

 object is to get it into English grass as soon as I can." 



VI. A farmer, whose success is the best test of his skill, thus 

 describes his method of cultivating his level clay lands, and bringing 

 them into very productive mowing lands. " The soil is about five 

 inches deep on a hard clay bottom. I plough about five inches deep 

 usually in the fall, in lands about thirty feet wide, that the water may 

 drain off in the furrows. I usually plant with potatoes manured in 

 the hills, with about four cords of stable manure to the acre ; and 

 usually have produced 200 bushels to the acre. The next season, I 

 take a harrow with teeth, with a shoe on the bottom of each tooth, 

 about five inches broad, and running to a point ; and harrow two or 

 three inches deep. I then spread 200 bushels or more of leeched 

 ashes to an acre ; and sow half a bushel of herds' grass seed, and 

 two bushels of oats to the acre. I have usually had from 40 to 50 

 bushels of oats to the acre ; and the next season, about two tons of 

 hav to the acre. I think it best not to plough up the sod." 



VII. One of the most extraordinary cases of general improve- 

 ment within the county, is to be found in Sandy Bay, a parish of 

 Gloucester. Any person, who has visited this village, at the ex- 



